K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research

The KG Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research wishes to be a leading international centre for deep sea research. Its goal is to be a pioneer in discoveries, thereby also expanding our knowledge of the deep seas and their potential resources.

The research activity at the KG Jebsen Centre for Deep sea Research is organised in seven different working groups. These groups are strongly interlinked, they are multi-disciplinary and they are designed to disseminate knowledge ranging from the fundamentals to applied research.

Leader group:

Prof. Rolf Birger Birger Pedersen
Centre leader, Department of  Earth Science, University of Bergen (UiB).

Professor Ingunn H. Thorseth
Department for Earth Science, University of Bergen

Professor Ida Helene Steen 
Department of Biology, University for Bergen

Professor Hans Tore Rapp 
Department biology, University ofi Bergen

Facts about the centre:

Leader: Rolf Birger Pedersen
Start year: 2017
Host institution: University of Bergen
Funding: 32 MNOK
Home page: K.G. Jebsen-Centre for Deep Sea Research

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